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Federal Reserve origins / private-controlAtlas
Global Power & Elites · Banking & financial control
Competing accounts of how the Federal Reserve was created in 1913 and whether its structure is best read as a public-federal hybrid or as privately dominated money power.
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- 1913-12-23 · eventFederal Reserve Act signed
- 1913-12-23 · document_releaseFederal Reserve Act signed into law
- 1914 · eventNumber and locations of Reserve Banks set
- 1914 · eventPredecessor Federal Reserve Board begins operating
- 1930 · document_releaseWarburg publishes Federal Reserve origin account
- 1936 · eventBoard of Governors takes current institutional form
- 1952 · popularizationMid-century critical literature
- 1987 · popularizationGreider popularizes Aldrich-plan continuity thesis
- 1994 · popularizationCreature from Jekyll Island amplifies private-control narrative
- 2010 · amplificationCrisis-era audit and independence debates